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Nava Certus 1.6 is now available as a fully supported download. We now add support for SharePoint and OneDrive as migration targets. Also learn what Google has to say about Nava Certus in its blog post on Drive migrations.

The major focus for us in 1.6 has been to work towards completing the Sharepoint and OneDrive story. In our commitment to produce a universal cloud data migration solution, we’re happy to announce that version 1.6 of Nava Certus supports migration to Sharepoint and OneDrive.*

Nava Certus 1.6 is now officially supported and available for your download. As always, you get to migrate your first 1GB free of charge as part of a 5-day evaluation.

Check out the release notes for more details on changes in NC 1.6.

Sharepoint and OneDrive migration
With Nava Certus now supporting migration to Sharepoint, customers now have a robust solution that they can utilize for many Sharepoint-related tasks, including:

Migration to Sharepoint from a local file-server. Move all your data to Sharepoint (on-premise) or Sharepoint Online. Save both time and money by eliminating the need for a file server.
Migration between two Sharepoint instances. If you have a new Sharepoint deployment and would like an easy way to migrate your data, then give Nava Certus a try.
Office 365 migrations made easier. If your customer wishes to adopt Office 365, Nava Certus can help by migrating content to Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive).
Improve migration performance. Nava Certus’ multi-threaded and job-oriented design allows you to conduct multiple independent parallel migrations.
Manage migration projects. Nava Certus’ reporting allows you to easily produce reports (final and progress reports) on […]

Announcing Nava SIEM Agent 1.2. The industry’s leading tool for cloud compliance, audit analytics, cloud forensics, and data retention now supports a fuller set of features, including support for Amazon AWS CloudTrail and Syslog.

Today we’re releasing Nava SIEM Agent 1.2. This version supports long-awaited functionality, including support for Amazon CloudTrail and output to Syslog.

Amazon AWS and Google Apps are two of the most popular cloud services that offer an API or method of retrieving audit logs. With this release we’re making yet another step in the direction of our commitment to provide a universal cloud logging solution.

Nava SIEM Agent is the industry’s only log management tool with full support for Google Apps and Amazon S3. Use it to bring in your cloud audit logs into your SIEM solution or achieve Google Apps HIPAA compliance. Give it a try today.

Feature Diagram
Here is a diagram of current functionality:

New Feature Details
Amazon AWS CloudTrail
If you use Amazon AWS, then you should be interested in a new service called CloudTrail. All API calls (for supported services) within AWS are logged and available for retrieval and processing. Previously, Nava SIEM Agent already supported Amazon S3 (cloud storage) access logs, but the latest addition with CloudTrail provides unprecedented visibility into the AWS stack and how you use it.
Currently, the following AWS services are supported as part of CloudTrail: (new AWS services are being added)

We’re happy to announce an update to Nava SIEM Agent, our cloud security and audit log retrieval solution. Since Nava SIEM Agent is a relatively new product, we want to answer some frequently asked questions about it in this post.

Many of the changes in this release (Nava SIEM Agent 1.1) are internal but important, including:

Updated to work with with the latest version of the Google Admin SDK libraries
Ability to “Service Account” authentication as opposed to 3-legged OAuth
Selective backlog retrieval

The changes will cumulatively result in better security, improved stability, and scalability to millions of events. For full release notes, please visit this page: Nava SIEM Agent 1.1 release notes.
What are some common use cases for Nava SIEM Agent?
There are several reasons why you might use it:

Google Apps retains audit logs only for 180 days, after which they are gone.
Help perform IP reputation analysis, by comparing IP addresses in audit logs with a database of known malicious IPs.
Help perform offline forensics, without requiring access to the cloud provider.
Help aggregate logs in a centralized logging server.

With Nava Certus, cloud storage migration has never been easier. Today, we’re expanding our features to include another migration target, AODocs a document management solution for Google Apps.

While the functionality is still in Beta and we’re actively testing and getting this version ready for shipment, you are welcome to contact us and we’ll be happy to give you an advance version to test.

X = regular migration, P = migration with permission support, D = distributed migration, C = conversion
Details
How does the migration to AODocs work?
We’ve put a lot of time and thought into supporting the AODocs functionality. To begin with, all of the sources currently available in the product are also supported for migration to AODocs. For instance, if you are a Google Apps reseller, you can now win more Microsoft customers by offering to migrate the customer’s data from Sharepoint to AODocs or from SkyDrive/OneDrive to AODocs.

Not only will you be able to migrate to AODocs, but in some cases, you may be interested in sending very large files somewhere else. For the AODocs destination, we now support a secondary Google Cloud Storage location. Files smaller or equal to a certain size will go to AODocs (which is actually built on top of Google Drive). Files greater than the configured size filter will be sent to Google Cloud Storage.
Size filter for Google Drive
Many customers frequently want […]

The Google Apps partner ecosystem is growing. If your company is in the Google Apps business, is enough being done to differentiate from other competitors? Continue reading to learn some ways that your firm can stand out by partnering with Nava Solutions.

Google Apps now has more than 10000 resellers! This was one of the major announcements stemming from the Google Enterprise Partner Summit, which took place in San Francisco last week. In addition to the sheer multitude of companies signing up as partners, more established technology vendors such as CDW have also joined in.

This is a terrific metric, representing more than 65% growth over a two year period. (In July, 2012 this number was 6000.)

We’d like to welcome all new partners that are incorporating Google Apps in their business strategy as it further solidifies Google Apps as a proven technology with the ability to power modern businesses. And while we couldn’t be happier for this news, the fact is that resellers now have more competitors and a differentiation strategy today is more important than ever.

Google’s channel partners may need to reinvent themselves and figure out how to provide additional value and a more robust set of services and products to their customers. As David Politis from Bettercloud mentions:
In the long term, as companies come to rely more on Google Apps, they’ll look to their resellers to provide a well-rounded all-cloud IT environment. As a reseller – really your customers’ “cloud advisor” – it’s your responsibility to shepherd them into this new IT landscape.

Today, we’re happy to announce the availability of Nava Certus 1.4 our most comprehensive release to date. As a result, we now support nearly 30 different unique migration paths with strong support for Google Drive and Google Cloud Storage as migration destinations.

We aim to be the clear leader in cloud storage migration and are constantly at work developing support for new sources/destinations. Do you have a feature requirement we don’t yet support? Feel free to request it in our UserVoice forum or in the comments below.-

Are you a Google Apps Authorized reseller in Europe? If so, then check out our upcoming webinar on Google Drive migration services and how your company can leverage Nava Certus to deliver accurate migration services. During the webinar, we will also announce the release of Nava Certus 1.4 containing many new and exciting features.

We are looking for partners worldwide and this is a great opportunity to increase your revenue and value as a Google Apps reseller.

Customers using Nava Certus, may have noticed a few logistical complications with extremely large migrations. If a migration was large and the source files were still in used by users, then by the time you migrate the data there will be new versions of some files at the source.
In the past, we recommended to split up migrations into manageable chunks and to enforce a ‘freeze’ on the source during the migration.
Today we have a more ideal solution. We’re happy to release Nava Certus 1.3 featuring a new “Continuous Mode” option that enables two use cases: Delta migrations & One-way Synchronization.

Delta Migration
One the main stage of the migration has finished, a delta migration allows for the migration of only the changed files. With this functionality, each migration can now have a last “delta migration” phase shortly before the go-live.
One-Way Synchronization
With the one-way synchronization use case, the customer would like to continuously update the destination as files at the source are updated. When the destination is set to Google Drive,
More Details
As you can see on the left, there are three configuration options we’ve added:

Enable Continuous Mode: With this option enabled, after migrating the initial set of data, NC will go into “Watching” state and monitor the source for changed files and periodically begin to migrate the changed data. For the Google Drive destination, modified files are appended as new “Revisions” to the existing file in Google Drive, preserving the previous version of the file.

Detection Method: We support 2 modes of detecting changes: Datetime and Checksum. With Datetime, […]

Prior to releasing Nava Certus in June/July this year, we conducted a study of the cloud storage and data migration market in an effort to determine our pricing strategy. This was not an easy task since there weren’t (and still aren’t) that many commercially available tools for migrating data to cloud storage and specifically to Google Drive.

Still, we were able to get an understanding of the market and as a result set the introductory price to $4.99 per GB. At the time the software was released, we only supported migration from file server to Google Drive. Many of our valued customers took advantage of the introductory and we thank them for their trust and vote of confidence.

Since those first days, we’ve been hard at work developing new features. A brief summary of the new features we’ve introduced since then includes:

In order to continue developing great new features and help support our expansion and marketing efforts, we are ending the introductory pricing period. Effective Nov 15, 2013 the new and more permanent price for Nava Certus migrations is $7.99/GB. This is still significantly lower than other competing products and we do not have plans to change the pricing any further.

If you are migrating more than 500GB then you may qualify for a volume discount. Call us for more info.

If you have received a quote from us during the introductory period, we will honor all such quotes until Dec. 1 2013.
We have also modified our reseller pricing. Resellers, please contact us for details.

Nava Certus 1.2
Today, we’re announcing the latest version of Nava Certus. With this release, we bring support for migration to and from Dropbox as well as migration from cloud storage to local premise servers.

We’ve been hard at work trying to realize our goal of making Nava Certus synonymous with cloud storage migration. If you have a request for a particular source or destination, please don’t hesitate to respond in the comments.

Full release notes available here.
Dropbox Migration
Dropbox is now available both as a migration source and destination. Some of the use cases for this are:

Do you have a different Dropbox migration use case? Let us know in the comments.
Cloud migration to premise
We realize that organizational cloud computing strategies can change over time. What made sense a few years ago may not anymore. For this reason, we’d like to ensure that you’re not locked in and married to your cloud provider. Combined with the document conversion feature introduced in NC 1.1, we can now support a full migration and back-up of Google Apps data in an independent format.

Use cases to consider:

Change in Cloud Strategy

You have a new IT executive and he/she wants nothing to do with the cloud. Or perhaps you’ve merged (or been acquired) by a company that doesn’t subscribe to the cloud mentality. Far too common from our experience. Problem? No problem!

Disaster Recovery

You like your cloud storage, but want to ensure that you still retain your data in a disaster that may affect the cloud provider. Consider the case of Nirvanix, a cloud storage company that […]